Gov. Mike Pence Once Said This About Mulan

You Won't Believe What Gov. Mike Pence Once Thought About Mulan

Have you ever watched a Disney movie and thought, This is legit propaganda and I must write an op-ed about it? Well, that seems to be what crossed Indiana Gov. Mike Pence's mind in 1999 when he saw Mulan.

The Indiana governor, who would be elected to the House of Representatives the year after penning this column, wrote, "I suspect that some mischievous liberal at Disney assumes that Mulan’s story will cause a quiet change in the next generation’s attitude about women in combat and they just might be right."

He added, "It is instructive that even in the Disney film, young Ms. Mulan falls in love with her superior officer! Me thinks the politically correct Disney types completely missed the irony of this part of the story. They likely added it because it added realism with which the viewer could identify with the characters. You see, now stay with me on this, many young men find many young women to be attractive sexually. Many young women find many young men to be attractive sexually. Put them together, in close quarters, for long periods of time, and things will get interesting. Just like they eventually did for young Mulan. Moral of story: women in military, bad idea."